From KNXV: A Tempe high school football coach has one week remaining of a suspension that resulted from the coach instigating a team prayer.

The headmaster at Tempe Preparatory Academy, Dr. David Baum, said he suspended Head Coach Tom Brittain for two weeks after Brittain instructed a player to lead a team prayer in which Brittain participated.

“Our adults on campus are authority figures,” Baum said.

“If they seem to be condoning, on behalf of the school, a particular approach to religion, it has a sway on our students.”

Baum said that cannot be allowed, so he suspended Brittain for the prayer, which was in Show Low after a winning game.

Tempe Prep is a charter school; it receives public money.

Even so, some parents believe Brittain never should have been suspended.